Editing Ancient planter (section)

{{Short description|Early English settlers in Virginia}}
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[[File:Cultivation of tobacco at Jamestown 1615.jpg|thumb|250px|right|"Cultivation of tobacco at Jamestown 1615"]]
"'''Ancient planter'''" (sometimes called '''ancient colony men'''<ref name="argall">{{Cite web |title=Samuel Argall's time in the Virginia Company &#124; History Forum |url=https://historum.com/t/samuel-argalls-time-in-the-virginia-company.171271/}}{{better source needed|reason=This is a forum post.|date=July 2024}}</ref>) was a term applied to early colonists who migrated to the [[Colony of Virginia]] when the settlement was managed privately by the [[Virginia Company of London]]. A colonist received a [[land grant]] if they remained in Virginia for at least three years. Under the terms of the "Instructions to [[George Yeardley|Governor Yeardley]]" (issued in 1618), these colonists received the first land grants in the New World.<ref>"Instructions to George Yeardley, November 18, 1618" http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mtj8&fileName=mtj8pagevc03.db&recNum=121.gif</ref><ref name="Yeardley">"Instructions to Governor Yeardley, 1618" The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography for the Year Ending JUNE, 1895, Volume II, pp. 154-165 (The Virginia Historical Society, 1895)]</ref>